Health (Western Australian Cancer Register) Regulations 2011 (WA)

Western Australia Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911 Health (Western Australian Cancer Register) Regulations 2011 Western Australia Health (Western Australian Cancer Register) Regulations 2011 Contents Part 1 — Preliminary 1. Citation 1 2. Commencement 1 3. Terms used 1 4. Cancer a prescribed condition of health 4 Part 2 — Notification of cases of cancer 5. Notification by examining specialist 5 6. Notification by radiation oncologist 6 7. Notification by ophthalmologist 7 8. Notification by hospital of cancer diagnosed other than pathologically 7 9. Chief Health Officer may require information 8 Part 3 — Western Australian Cancer Register 10. Western Australian Cancer Register 9 11. Offence to disclose information without authority 9 12. Chief Health Officer may authorise disclosure of information 10 Part 4 — Repeal 13. Regulations Repealed 12 Schedule 1 — Information to be notified Notes Compilation table 14 Defined terms Western Australia Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911 Health (Western Australian Cancer Register) Regulations 2011

Part 1 — Preliminary

1. Citation These regulations are the Health (Western Australian Cancer Register) Regulations 2011.

2. Commencement These regulations come into operation as follows — (a) regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette; (b) the rest of the regulations — on the 42nd day after that day.

3. Terms used In these regulations, unless the contrary intention appears — Australian Institute of Health and Welfare means the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare established under the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Act 1987 (Commonwealth) section 4; cancer means a neoplastic growth of human tissue which if unchecked has the potential to spread to adjacent tissue and beyond its site of origin, including but not limited to the following — (a) a malignant neoplasm, whether invasive or in situ, other than a primary invasive or in situ basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin; (b) a neoplasm of the brain, spinal cord or cranial nerves, or other intracranial neoplasm, whether benign, malignant or of uncertain malignant potential; (c) a neoplasm classified as a gastrointestinal stromal tumour whether benign, malignant or of uncertain malignant potential; (d) a carcinoid or other neuroendocrine tumour whether benign, malignant or of uncertain malignant potential; (e) phaeochromocytoma of the adrenal medulla, or other paraganglioma of the autonomic nervous system, whether benign, malignant or of uncertain malignant potential; (f) an ovarian neoplasm of borderline malignancy or of uncertain malignant potential; (g) any lymphohaematopoietic neoplasm, including but not limited to — (i) leukaemia; and (ii) lymphoma; and (iii) plasma cell, mast cell or histiocytic neoplasm; and (iv) myelodysplastic syndrome; and (v) refractory anaemia; and (vi) refractory cytopaenia; and (vii) chronic myeloproliferative disorder; and (viii) polycythaemia rubra vera; and (ix) idiopathic and essential thrombocythaemia; and (x) myelofibrosis; and (xi) myelosclerosis; and (xii) any other immunoproliferative, lymphoproliferative or myeloproliferative disorder; chief executive officer, in relation to a hospital or a hospice, means the person who, subject to the control of the the health service provider for the hospital or the licence holder of the hospital or the board of the hospice, is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the hospital or hospice; corresponding officer, in relation to another State or a Territory, means a person who under the law of that State or Territory has functions that correspond or substantially correspond to the functions of the Chief Health Officer under these regulations; examining specialist means a medical practitioner — (a) who is a pathologist, a haematologist or a clinical biochemist; and (b) who undertakes examinations of specimens of human origin; health service provider has the meaning given in the Health Services Act 2016 section 6; hospital has the meaning given in the Health Services Act 2016 section 8(4); identifying information means information from which the identity of the person to whom the information relates is apparent or can reasonably be ascertained; notified information means — (a) copies of reports given under Part 2; and (b) other information notified under that Part; register means the Western Australian Cancer Register referred to in regulation 10. [Regulation 3 amended: Gazette 24 Jun 2016 p. 2313; 10 Jan 2017 p. 295.]